Mattie White has been named assistant vice president of campus life and the Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics and Recreation at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. White comes to her new role from the University of Delaware, where she served as deputy athletic director and senior woman administrator. Earlier in her career, she held a variety of athletics leadership roles with Indiana University and Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dr. White received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and her master’s degree in education from Ohio University. She earned master’s degrees in athletic administration and counselor education and a Ph.D. in health behavior from Indiana University.
Kizzy N. Lea is chief financial officer and vice president of business operations at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. With more than 25 years of executive leadership experience within higher education and local government, Lea most recently served as chief operations officer and chief financial officer at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has also held key financial leadership roles with Winston-Salem State University, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Salisbury, North Carolina, Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the City of Salisbury.
Lea holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Guilford College and a master’s degree in accounting from Strayer University.
Katreshia Louis-Verrett has been appointed director of intercollegiate athletics at North Carolina A&T State University. Louis-Verrett’s appointment marks a return to the HBCU, where she previously served as associate athletic director from 2011 to 2017. Most recently, she was deputy athletic director at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has also served as assistant athletic director at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Louis-Verrett holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in sports administration from the University of Miami. She earned a juris doctorate from the Southern University Law Center in Louisiana.
William C. Nelson Jr. is chief of staff in the Office of the Provost at Virginia Commonwealth University. Nelson first joined the university in 2020 as the executive director of academic finance and administration in the provost’s office. Earlier, he worked for the University of the District of Columbia as the director of financial operations and budget director for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and as the associate dean for finance and administration in the David A. Clarke School of Law.
Nelson is a graduate of Virginia Union University, where he majored in accounting. He holds an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
